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Re: [phpesp-general] Cross Analysis

[Roman J. <cit...@ma...>]

Kon,

if you don't mind I'll keep posting to the list, so other might get the=20=

information too.
Here is where I suggest you start:

1. You need to get the IDs for the Questions you're trying to Cross=20
Analyze. You need to access *View a Survey Report* function
from the main management interface. There you'll find unique Questions=20=

ID (qid) and also unique question choices (answers) ID (cids).
I'm giving you actual urls from phpESP demo site on the sourceforge.net=20=

so you can try it right away.
http://phpesp.sourceforge.net/demo/index.php?where=3Dreport&sid=3D2379

2. Once you learned [qid] and [cids] for the question/s you want to do=20=

cross analysis for you need to access View Results from a Survey
(just like you do for a normal report). At this point there is no menu=20=

option for selecting which question&choices to use in cross analysis, so=20=

you will have to do it from url string. It's not the ideal way, but=20
works for now. Here is the example of a url string (that thing you type=20=

in the address bar of Netscape/IE ;-)
This one will tell you how people that selected first option of question=20=

#1 (qid=3D4131) answered on the rest of the survey.
=
http://phpesp.sourceforge.net/demo/index.php?where=3Dresults&test=3D1&sid=3D=
2379&
qid=3D4131&cids=3D7941

 =46rom here all you need to do is substitute qids&sid with ones you =
need.=20
That should get you started with Cross Analysis.

In reply to you second post. I'm running php 4.1.2 on both of my boxes=20=

(FreeBSD and OS X) I don't have any problems with ESP there. My personal=20=

opinion is that you should go ahead and knock yourself down by=20
documenting it. It wouldn't hurt to have it for new ESP believers.

Take care,

-Roman


On Wednesday, March 13, 2002, at 12:37  PM, Kon Angelopoulos wrote:

> Hi Roman,
>
> =09
> 	Firstly, thanks for the quick response........
> 	Secondly, sorry for replying to your personal email but I don't
> know how to
> 	reply to the general list.
>
> 	basically, I need to be able to cross analyse certain surveys
> but do not
> 	know where to start. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If I
> can return the
> 	favour please let me know
>
> Regards
>
> Kon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roman Jasins [mailto:cit...@ma...]
> Sent: Wednesday, 13 March 2002 9:32 PM
> To: php...@li...
> Cc: Kon Angelopoulos
> Subject: Re: [phpesp-general] Cross Analysis
>
>
> Sure it's a reality. Could you be a little more descriptive about your
> problem with Cross Analysis.
>
> Looking forward to help you out with that,
>
> -Roman
>
> On Wednesday, March 13, 2002, at 12:21  PM, Kon Angelopoulos wrote:
>
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 I don't wish to be a pain by reposting this =
question
>> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 but I would like to find out (either way) if =
anyone has
>> managed
>> to cross analyse survey results or whether this feature is not yet a
>> reality.
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Kon Angelopoulos
>>
>

[phpesp-general] (no subject)

[Kon A. <ang...@ip...>]

Hi Guys,

	has anyone installed phpesp on a linux box running php4.1.2 ?
	If so what problems does this version of php create for phpesp?
	If not, would people consider it a valuable resource?
	 I'm willing to document this (with solutions) and post it on
the general list.

Regards 
Kon Angelopoulos

Re: [phpesp-general] Cross Analysis

[Roman J. <cit...@ma...>]

Sure it's a reality. Could you be a little more descriptive about your=20=

problem with Cross Analysis.

Looking forward to help you out with that,

-Roman

On Wednesday, March 13, 2002, at 12:21  PM, Kon Angelopoulos wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 I don't wish to be a pain by reposting this =
question
> =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 but I would like to find out (either way) if =
anyone has managed=20
> to cross analyse survey results or whether this feature is not yet a=20=

> reality.
>
>
> Regards
> Kon Angelopoulos
>

[phpesp-general] Cross Analysis

[Kon A. <ang...@ip...>]

Hi Guys,

	I don't wish to be a pain by reposting this question
	but I would like to find out (either way) if anyone has managed
to cross analyse survey results or whether this feature is not yet a
reality. 


Regards 
Kon Angelopoulos

Re: [phpesp-general] Inserting Page Breaks

[James E. F. <jf...@ac...>]

Assuming you have javascript enabled in your browser, just
add a page break, then change it's position on the order
tab. So following your example, set the position of one
break to #6 and the other #12.

-James

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, me@shaw wrote:

> Hi All
> Is it possible to insert page breaks after you have completed a few
> questions.  For example if I have 15 questions done, can I insert a page
> break after q#5 and q#10.
> PS: I know how to insert them before doing the next question.
> Many thanx
>
>
>
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>

[phpesp-general] Inserting Page Breaks

[<me...@sh...>]

Hi All
Is it possible to insert page breaks after you have completed a few
questions.  For example if I have 15 questions done, can I insert a page
break after q#5 and q#10.
PS: I know how to insert them before doing the next question.
Many thanx

[phpesp-general] Wrong password

[Tigran <ti...@us...>]

Well I finally got the thing working.  Or I think its working.
I don't get an error anymore. I get a user name and password request.

However the default login root/esp doesn't work for some reason.
I try root for username and esp for password. Am I making a stupid mistake 
here???

The url to the site is www.usanogh.com/yana/admin

thanks

[phpesp-general] Re: malformed header / Bad header

[Tigran <ti...@us...>]

I see

well I asked the hosting company and they say I don't have NPH for PHP 
right now but I can compile my own version and put it on the server.
I'm not really sure what they mean by that.  As in compile a new version of 
PHP from the source code?

I also found this in the php.ini file.
implicit_flush          = Off
is this something that might help if I turn it on?

Thanks

At 05:46 AM 3/7/2002, James E. Flemer wrote:
>Bah! Your hosting service is using PHP in CGI mode, not as
>an Apache module. You will need to find out if you can use
>PHP in NPH (non-parsed headers) mode. Typically this is
>done by naming you script "nph-something" or by using
>/cgi-bin/nph-php instead of /cgi-bin/php. Ask your hosting
>service about this.
>-James
>
>On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Tigran wrote:
>
> > James,
> >
> > well it looks like all the quotes are set correct. and
> > the permission rights are set correctly. I got a hold
> > of the error reports. This doesn't mean much too me but
> > you might know.
> > malformed header from script. Bad header=HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized:
> > /www/usanogh/cgi-bin/php

[phpesp-general] Re: Is ESP right for me?

[James E. F. <jf...@ac...>]

Well phpESP would probably get you half way there. You
could certainly use it to get the information you want from
the users. You can use the authorized survey feature to
prevent ballot stuffing, as long as you have users login
with HTTP authentication.

However, you would have to write your own custom statistics
page to generate the format you need for scores from the
collected data.

I'd suggest you go to the online demo, and try out phpESP
yourself. Make a survey with the kind of data you need and
see how it works.

A link to the demo can be found on the main web page:
  http://phpesp.sf.net/

-James

On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Purple Raine wrote:

> I run a popular gaming site and very recently another
> gaming site handed me their code because they were
> closing down.
>
> The main attraction of their website is that they
> ACCUMULATED Battle Results and CALCULATED different
> stats with it.
>
> That was an amazing feature because they tallied more
> than 10,000 battle results.  Unfortunately, they did it
> all by hand! =( Basically, if a user had a result, they
> would submit it via e-mail to the webmaster and he
> would hand-calculate it and add it to the site.
>
> Well, I'm hoping for something automated and here's my
> idea:
>
> Say for instance, there are 10 different armies in the
> game we play. When a user comes to this BATTLE RESULTS
> page, they choose which are the armies involved in the
> battle (probably best with a survey type multiple
> choice) - so they choose Army B DEFEATS Army C.
>
> He hits submit and the data is sent to a database and
> it's stored. Then, on the following pages, the user can
> choose to view these stats ::
>
> a) A list of each army stating the amount of battles
> fought for each, the amount of victories, and the
> winninger % of each army.
>
> b) A table displaying the army vs army winning
> percentage.  So it basically lists all the armies on
> the X axis and all the armies on the Y axis, and lists
> % of victories against each respective army.
>
> c) A Table that states which is the most popular
> armies, in order.
>
> That's it!
>
> Bonuses?  IP-logging and graphical representation ...
>
> I asked a friend for an opinion and she suggested that
> I go with PHP and MySQL, but unfortunately, I don't
> know either of those.
>
> So then I come across PHPESP, is this the right tool
> for me?
>
> I'm thinking of giving the users to questions - the
> first is to choose the WINNER of the battle (multiple
> choice style), the second is to choose the LOSER of the
> battle ... then from that, the system will be able to
> use the stats to calculate what I want... (I will also
> take other information, like date, type of battle,
> etc)... but I'm just wondering, is this the right tool
> for me?  phpESP?
>
> Thanks for your input!

Re: [phpesp-general] CSV somewhere other than /tmp

[James E. F. <jf...@ac...>]

On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Richard M. Pavonarius wrote:

> Never mind, I found it. It's in the BUGS file. Ack.
>
> At 23:09 02/03/07 -0400, you wrote:
> > The CSV file is saved in /tmp  with 600 permissions. I don't have a
> > root  acct on the server I'm using so I can't access the file. Where's
> > the code  to change the location and permissions?

You can change the path where these files are dumped to at:

admin/include/lib/espauth.inc line 170

Set 'home' to where the files should go, you can even make
it a function of the username or something clever like
that.

You can change the file permissions at:

admin/include/function/survey_export_csv.inc line 13

-James

Re: [phpesp-general] phpESP install problems

[James E. F. <jf...@ac...>]

> 3) PHP failing when trying to load the gettext extension
>    (try changing "gettext.so" to "gettext.dll" in the INI)
>    Also look back in the mailing list archives and run the
>    status script. (I'll try to put it on the website this
>    weekend).

The status script is at:
  http://phpesp.sf.net/status.php.txt

That should at least show you if you can safely try to load
extensions. You may need to change "gettext.so" to
"gettext.dll" in the status script when using it on
windows.

-James

[phpesp-general] Re: deleting links to results

[James E. F. <jf...@ac...>]

On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Ryan  A. Hartzell wrote:

> You can archive the survey, but how do you delete the
> link to the old survey results?

Grab the latest revision of admin/include/where/results.inc
from:

http://phpesp.sf.net/cvs/admin/include/where/results.inc?rev=.

-James

Re: [phpesp-general] CSV somewhere other than /tmp

[Richard M. P. <ri...@pa...>]

Never mind, I found it. It's in the BUGS file. Ack.

At 23:09 02/03/07 -0400, you wrote:
> > The CSV file is saved in /tmp  with 600 permissions. I don't have a
> > root  acct on the server I'm using so I can't access the file. Where's
> > the code  to change the location and permissions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Rich
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > phpESP-general mailing list
> > php...@li...
> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/phpesp-general
>
>
>It's not in the tar file?  I could'a sworn it was in there.
>
>Chuckle
>
>--
>   _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/
>
>   James O'Malley
>   Altamente.com
>   +1(787)296-1540
>
>   _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/

Re: [phpesp-general] CSV somewhere other than /tmp

[James O'M. <ja...@pa...>]

> The CSV file is saved in /tmp  with 600 permissions. I don't have a
> root  acct on the server I'm using so I can't access the file. Where's
> the code  to change the location and permissions?
>


It's not in the tar file?  I could'a sworn it was in there.

Chuckle


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  James O'Malley
  Altamente.com
  +1(787)296-1540

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[phpesp-general] CSV somewhere other than /tmp

[Richard M. P. <ri...@pa...>]

The CSV file is saved in /tmp  with 600 permissions. I don't have a root 
acct on the server I'm using so I can't access the file. Where's the code 
to change the location and permissions?

Thanks,

Rich 

[phpesp-general] Is ESP right for me?

[Purple R. <ra...@el...>]

I run a popular gaming site and very recently another gaming site handed
me their code because they were closing down.

The main attraction of their website is that they ACCUMULATED Battle
Results and CALCULATED different stats with it.

That was an amazing feature because they tallied more than 10,000 battle
results.  Unfortunately, they did it all by hand! =(  Basically, if a
user had a result, they would submit it via e-mail to the webmaster and
he would hand-calculate it and add it to the site.

Well, I'm hoping for something automated and here's my idea:

Say for instance, there are 10 different armies in the game we play.
When a user comes to this BATTLE RESULTS page, they choose which are the
armies involved in the battle (probably best with a survey type multiple
choice) - so they choose Army B DEFEATS Army C.

He hits submit and the data is sent to a database and it's stored.
Then, on the following pages, the user can choose to view these stats ::

a) A list of each army stating the amount of battles fought for each,
the amount of victories, and the winninger % of each army.

b) A table displaying the army vs army winning percentage.  So it
basically lists all the armies on the X axis and all the armies on the Y
axis, and lists % of victories against each respective army.

c) A Table that states which is the most popular armies, in order.

That's it!

Bonuses?  IP-logging and graphical representation ... 

I asked a friend for an opinion and she suggested that I go with PHP and
MySQL, but unfortunately, I don't know either of those.  
 
So then I come across PHPESP, is this the right tool for me?
 
I'm thinking of giving the users to questions - the first is to choose
the WINNER of the battle (multiple choice style), the second is to
choose the LOSER of the battle ... then from that, the system will be
able to use the stats to calculate what I want... (I will also take
other information, like date, type of battle, etc)... but I'm just
wondering, is this the right tool for me?  phpESP?
 
Thanks for your input!
 
 

[phpesp-general] malformed header / Bad header

[James E. F. <jf...@ac...>]

Bah! Your hosting service is using PHP in CGI mode, not as
an Apache module. You will need to find out if you can use
PHP in NPH (non-parsed headers) mode. Typically this is
done by naming you script "nph-something" or by using
/cgi-bin/nph-php instead of /cgi-bin/php. Ask your hosting
service about this.
-James

On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Tigran wrote:

> James,
>
> well it looks like all the quotes are set correct. and
> the permission rights are set correctly. I got a hold
> of the error reports. This doesn't mean much too me but
> you might know.
> malformed header from script. Bad header=HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized:
> /www/usanogh/cgi-bin/php

[phpesp-general] phpESP and Mac OS X

[Roman J. <cit...@ma...>]

Hi Everybody,

in case somebody cares, I was able successfully install and run ESP on 
Mac OS X (10.1.3). There is more throughout testing to be done, but it's 
pretty good so far.

Keep up the good work everybody,
-Roman

Re: [phpesp-general] phpESP install problems

[James E. F. <jf...@ac...>]

On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Brendan Lloyd wrote:

> > PHP is probably crashing, and hence not returning
> > data.
>
> Nope, it definitely wasn't crashing. I found that by
> commenting out the first main IF statment in the
> Gettext block of phpESP.ini, everything seems to work
> (?!).

Yep. As I said, the windows version sometimes has problems
loading extentions. Did you try changing
  dl("gettext.so")
to
  dl("gettext.dll")

What do you apache error logs say about that?
-James

Re: [phpesp-general] new install problems

[Tigran <ti...@us...>]

James,

well it looks like all the quotes are set correct. and the permission 
rights are set correctly.
I got a hold of the error reports.
This doesn't mean much too me but you might know.
malformed header from script. Bad header=HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized: 
/www/usanogh/cgi-bin/php

many thanks for your help.

At 08:54 PM 3/4/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>All files must be world readable (typically 644). Also
>check your phpESP.ini if you are getting a 500 error, PHP
>may be crashing Apache. It typically does this when you
>have un-matched quotes. Make sure the the lines you edited
>in the files have matching quotes (check single vs double
>quotes) and that they are terminated appropriatly (with a
>comma or semi-colon depending on the file).
>
>-James
>
>On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Tigran wrote:
>
> > Yes I was thinking it has something to do with the file permission but I'm
> > not sure what the permissions should be.
> >
> > there is no .htaccess in that directory, should there be one?
> >
> > Since it's a virtual host I don't have access to the apache error
> > logs.  I'm contacting the hosting company to find out if they can give me
> > access to the error logs.
> >
> > What other info can I give you.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> > At 03:53 PM 3/4/2002, James E. Flemer wrote:
> > >You are going to have to provide a whole lot more
> > >information than that. From what you've given so far, all I
> > >can tell you is to look at Apache's error log. As the 500
> > >page tells you "More information about this error may be
> > >available in the server error log." Do you have a .htaccess
> > >file in that directory? Are the file permissions ok?
> > >
> > >-James
> > >
> > >On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Tigran wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I'm trying to install phpESP on a virtual host.
> > > > Right after I change the paths in the noted files I get a 500 Inernal
> > > > Server Error.
> > > > http://www.usanogh.com/yana/admin/
> > > >
> > > > Any help is appriciated.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > phpESP-general mailing list
> > php...@li...
> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/phpesp-general
> >

Re: [phpesp-general] phpESP install problems

[James E. F. <jf...@ac...>]

PHP is probably crashing, and hence not returning data.
There are a few probable causes:
1) Unmatched quotes (when editing paths or the phpesp.ini)
2) Missing comma or semicolon at the end of a statement
   (also from editing paths or the phpesp.ini)
3) PHP failing when trying to load the gettext extension
   (try changing "gettext.so" to "gettext.dll" in the INI)
   Also look back in the mailing list archives and run the
   status script. (I'll try to put it on the website this
   weekend).

Don't you love PHP? I love non-beta releases that crash
left and right from simple things like a syntax error. If
you find out what the problem was post your solution here
so other people using windows can benifit.
-James

On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Brendan Lloyd wrote:

> G'day:
>
> I've attempted to install phpESP on Windows NT running Apache & mySQL. I'm
> pretty sure I've followed all the instructions but when I go to load
> manage.php via my browser, a dialog returns stating that "The document
> contained no data. Try again later or contact the server administrator".
>
> PHP (v.4.1.1) appears to be functioning quite normally, having been tested
> with basic scripts like show_source().
>
> What have I done wrong?
>
> Please advise,
> Brendan
>
> _______________________________________________
> phpESP-general mailing list
> php...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/phpesp-general
>

[phpesp-general] phpESP install problems

[Brendan L. <bl...@uo...>]

G'day:

I've attempted to install phpESP on Windows NT running Apache & mySQL. I'm
pretty sure I've followed all the instructions but when I go to load
manage.php via my browser, a dialog returns stating that "The document
contained no data. Try again later or contact the server administrator".

PHP (v.4.1.1) appears to be functioning quite normally, having been tested
with basic scripts like show_source().

What have I done wrong?

Please advise,
Brendan

Re: [phpesp-general] !other

[Paul B. <pbo...@sc...>]

Hi James,Griffin,

I stumbled on this one too, but being still on my php learning curve, I 
am not sure if the changes I made are the best solution. Anyway, the 
attached file (which lives in <phpesp-install-dir>/admin/include/lib) 
solves the problem for me. It does take into account multi-valued 
multiple choice cases. Take a look at the lines starting at line 379 
since I would like some feedback.

I changed the survey_export_csv.inc in order to strip line feeds from 
text fields and replace these occurences with a <br> tag. Also, with 
multi-valued answers, the separator is changed to something else ("<->") 
than the field separator (a "|" in my modification) . Anyone interested 
in that one?

Regards

Paul

James E. Flemer wrote:
> Hehe ... It's listed on the bugs list on sourceforge. I
> know about the problem ... don't have time to fix it right
> now (have classes and such). That part of the code
> shouldn't be too hard for someone else to hack up tho, so
> if anyone has the time that I lack, I'd appreciate a patch.
> -James
> 
> On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Griffin Palmer wrote:
> 
> 
>>I've installed phpESP and am knocked out by the functionality. This is a
>>very well thought-out program.
>>
>>However, I've run into a snag in the export-to-CSV feature. A couple of my
>>questions have "other" as a possible response. When the respondent chooses
>>other, the CSV export feature populates that field with the value "!other"
>>instead of the actual response.
>>
>>Has anybody else encountered this problem, and have you figured out a
>>work-around?
>>
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> phpESP-general mailing list
> php...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/phpesp-general
> 

Re: [phpesp-general] !other

[James E. F. <jf...@ac...>]

Hehe ... It's listed on the bugs list on sourceforge. I
know about the problem ... don't have time to fix it right
now (have classes and such). That part of the code
shouldn't be too hard for someone else to hack up tho, so
if anyone has the time that I lack, I'd appreciate a patch.
-James

On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Griffin Palmer wrote:

> I've installed phpESP and am knocked out by the functionality. This is a
> very well thought-out program.
>
> However, I've run into a snag in the export-to-CSV feature. A couple of my
> questions have "other" as a possible response. When the respondent chooses
> other, the CSV export feature populates that field with the value "!other"
> instead of the actual response.
>
> Has anybody else encountered this problem, and have you figured out a
> work-around?

[phpesp-general] !other

[Griffin P. <mrd...@ho...>]

I've installed phpESP and am knocked out by the functionality. This is a 
very well thought-out program.

However, I've run into a snag in the export-to-CSV feature. A couple of my 
questions have "other" as a possible response. When the respondent chooses 
other, the CSV export feature populates that field with the value "!other" 
instead of the actual response.

Has anybody else encountered this problem, and have you figured out a 
work-around?





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